About This Station

This Personal Weather Station (PWS) and website are operated and supported by Penn State Extension
Master Gardeners of Cumberland County volunteers and began operations on September, 2 2013.

This website was created to help the Master Gardeners better support the Allen Road Demonstration Gardens,
located at 310 Allen Road, Carlisle, PA and as a public educational service to our fellow gardeners, our local
community and visitors to our region.

The local data used for this site is collected and processed using Weather Display software.

Local weather data is collected real-time by the Davis Wireless ISS weather station comprised of an
anemometer, rain gauge, and thermo-hydro sensors, situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible,
and connected to a wireless data transmitter.

Data is transmitted every 2.5 seconds, where the signals are received by a central base station
(Console/Receiver) which is connected via a USB cable to a computer at the
Penn State Extension Cumberland County offices.
It is then immediately processed by Weather-Display,
a specialized weather station software application, running under Microsoft XP.
Files of data and web page templates are then uploaded every 10 seconds to 5 minutes over a
broadband connection to the MechanicsburgWeather.com website, hosted at GoDaddy.com. Data is also uploaded
to the
Weather Underground and CWOP.

to make these data available for weather services and homeland security; and

to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality.

The integrity of the collected weather data is monitored throughout the day and compared with other reporting stations
in the area by CWOP. Data is accurate and within the deviations seen by nearby reporting stations.